authenticity Quotes

There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.